Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 16800, Ichabod Field, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Field, Schabod
8 16 800
Carded
CONTENTS

2497 New York
Ichabod Field Tompkins Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the Com p y commanded by Captain Starr of the Regt commanded by Col Robinson in the Connecticut line for 11 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Mar 1834 and sent to Hon. M Halsey H. R.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 34, - $109.98 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep 34 18.33 $128 31
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Bro Bromwell Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 4 Page 101

29841 In the Matter of the Application of Ichabod Field for a Pension
N.Y.
admir
11 mo. 23 d.
$36.66
Mr. Hall
Hon. J. Hall

State of New York Tompkins County
In this fourth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty four personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tompkins now sitting Ichabod Field a resident of the town of Lansing in the County of Tompkins and State of New York aged twenty years on the tenth day of July last past who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers as I served as Union State but by reason of old age and loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period herein mentioned.
He entered the service of the United States in the Drafted Militia of the State of Connecticut as a substitute for his brother Benjamin Field on the fifteenth day of July 1779 for three months under Captain Stern in Colonel Robinsons regiment of the Connecticut Militia at Guilford in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut that he marched with his Company from thence to New Pounds in the State of New York in which fort he remained on duty as a private until the fifteenth day of October following when he received a written discharge signed by General McDougal and returned from which discharge he has since lived.
That on the first day of June in the year of our Lord 1780 he again entered the service as a Drafted man in the Militia of the State of Connecticut the sum of the United States in a Company commanded by Captain Munsens in Colonel Robinsons

Robinson saying that he continued with his company in the service as a guard on the lines & stationed at Old Guilford in the said county of Northham until the first day of September following when he was discharged by a general order.
That on the first day of July 1781 he was again drafted as a private in Captain Munger's Company, Colonel Robinson's Regiment in the state troops of the state of Connecticut in the service of the United States and joined his company at North Guilford on the same day and marched from thence to Old Guilford where he continued in the service with his company until & as a guard on the lines until the first day of December following being five months when he was discharged the service that during the last service he was in an engagement with one of the scouting parties of the enemy in which several lives were lost & that this defendant lost the forefinger of his right hand by the accidental discharge of a musket by one of his comrades. That all the offers he can now recollect better than none under whom he served are Lieutenant Baldwin. And this defendant doth on his oath further say that he has no documentary evidence of his service in the United States Army of the Revolution and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can prove former who can testify to his services and this defendant on his said oath further deposes and saith that he was born at North Guilford in the county of Northham and state of Connecticut on the tenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty three.

that he has no record of his age, and further that he is well known to
*The Plaintiff Sylvester Miness
writing in my neighbourhood all of whom can testify as to the character of this claimant for veracity and their belief of the service as a soldier of the revolution Thomas Robertson
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the pension and he declares that his claim is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state, territory or district
Subscribed & sworn before me
This 4 th day of February 1834
J. Love M.
We Thomas Robertson
in the County of Humphreys and neighbors to the said Ichabod Field above named who has subscribed the above affidavit and declaration hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the above named Ichabod Field who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit and declaration and we believe him to be twenty years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Subscribed & sworn before me
This 4 th day of February 1834
J. Love M.
Thomas Robertson Ichabod Field Sylvester Miness

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and deserves his status. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Sylvester Morris who has signed the pending certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Lansing in said County and that Thomas Robertson and J. P. Wyckoff Esquires who have also signed the same are likewise residents in the said town of Lansing and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Samuel Love Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tompkins do certify that the foregoing contains the ori- ginal proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ichabod Field for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fourth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty four.
Samuel Love Clerk

16800 INVALID.
File No. 16800
Schubert's File
Dr. Geo. Mer
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 126
[Arrangement of 1870.]